Lions in a Cage, from Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1887), added on 24th May 2026

This engraving, after a painting by Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842 &#x2013; 1915) shows a lioness lying down resting her head on the back of a lion, with the bars of a cage door visible in the background. Meyerheim was known for painting lions, and today his paintings sell at auctions for tens of thousands of pounds / euros / dollars. The engraving was done by Richard Brend’amour of Düsseldorf.…